Patient X

David Peace

earliest edition we have, 2018 Faber & Faber, Limited, 2018

Haunting and evocative, brutal and surreal, these twelve connected tales evoke the life of the Japanese writer Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927), whose short story "In the Grove" served as an inspiration for Akira Kurosawa's famous film Rashōmon, and whose narrative use of multiple perspectives and different versions of a single event influenced generations of storytellers. Writing out of his own obsession with Akutaga...

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Patient X edition · 2019 · Faber & Faber, Incorporated · 336 pages · 9780571333646
Patient X edition · 2018 · Faber & Faber, Limited · 320 pages · 9780571336241
Patient X edition · 2018 · Alfred A Knopf · 311 pages · 9780525521778
Patient X edition · 2018 · Faber & Faber, Limited · 9780571333653
Patient X edition · 2018 · Faber & Faber, Limited · 320 pages · 9780571333462

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